The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-17
BADGER NOTES.

murdered.
THE Penokee Lumber Company
which has bought some of the Cornell
University timber lands IN Wisconsin,
is looking for mill site and dock
frontage at Ashland. The cut for next
season is placed at 10000, 1000 feet.
A BRIDGE will be built across the in
let to Half Moon Lake, Shawtown,
Eau Claire County, to cost nearly
$25 900.
TIE Madison Street railway and
the Common Council are in wrangle
as to which shall k 1p the street bed,
between the rails, in repair.
Upon the petition OF Ephraim Mari
ner, George 2. lie ana Helena NJ
Wells, executors OF the estate OF Dan
lei l.. Wells, of Milwaukee, Judge Wins
low issued an order on the 10th in
the circuit court, appointing Fro Ter
lex c. Wiukler 3eiver for the busi-
ness of the Whltehill Sewing Machine
Company.
PETER VENDING lost a foot by fall
ing against a saw at the Paul mill at
La Crosse.
JAMES APPLEBY. OF Prairie du Chem,
he a snake cucumber six t>et long.
B. S. ROLLINS and wife, OF Arena,
Iowa County, died from eating toad
stools mistaken for mushrooms. A
son was dangerously i'll, but will re-
cover.
ABOUT II O'Clock on the night OF the
9th collision occurred on the Green
Bay Road, at Marshland, in which
four cars loaded with coal and barrel
stock were badly WI 3ked and a
brakeman named Sawyer was SO Sc
verely injured that he will die. The
conductor OF the night freight train
out OF La Crosse had orders on arriv
ing at Marshlaud not to wait for No.
), as it was four hours late,
so he used the main track
tor switching and left piece OF his
train out east of the depot. He had
finished switching and was about to
close up, when No. ) came along at
full speed. The engineer reversed his
engine, but too late to prevent col
.isIon. Sawyer was caught in the
wreck One OF his lCgs was nearly
cat off and the other crushed. He
leaves q wife and one child.
TIE Eau Claire Lumber Company
has used "a, 900 pounds OF iron chain
this season in making and repairing
bOoms.
A FARMER in the city limits OF e NJ
nomonie mas brought suit against
eighty-hge CoW owners OF that place
for damE yJ doneto his crops by their
cows.
1HB esse3sed valuation OF the real
and personal property in Eau Claire
is S5, ,240, GIT.
Or the thirty-five patients IN the
American Hospital at Eau Claire, fiji
teen have typhoid fever.
MANY grain ste cks were blown down
on Truax Prairie, Eau Claire County,
by T: cent windsUorm.
The officers of the United States
land office at Ashland have given it as
their opinion that thesO-called lndem-
nitv lands in the Ashland district will
not be restored TO settlement. They
are now examining the records in ref
erence TO this matter. They claim
that the lands have either been al
ready selected or are within the plain
limits of the congressional grant.
The register and T, eiver Of the
United States land office at Eau
Claire announce that the indemnity
withdraws ordered for the Wisconsin
Farm Mortgage Company, the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Company and the Wisconsin Central,
will be open for filing and entry on aud
after October 13, next, except such
lands as are exempted by tne land
commissioners and the secretary Of
the interior.
The earnings of the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western Railroad for
the week ended September I We're
$T4, ,2O4 against $50 800 for the COZ
responding week in 1SS6-an increase
OF S14, ,6O4. The receipts from iron
ore were $29, ,773 as compared with
S26, ,344 in 1886.
CURRIE Bros. florists, have leased
the extensive greenhouse connected
with the Mitchell residence on Grand
Avenue, Milwaukee. 1t Is bellev /
that this fOreshadows the sale OF the
proper ty, as Mrs. Mitchell will hereaf-
ter reside elsewhere and John l..
Mitchell has a magnificent residence
in the town OF Greenfield, near the
city limits, where, it Is said, he prefers
to reside.
THE La Crosse County AgriculC ural
Horticultural and Dairymen's \ ssocl
alton has b~-n organized.
In the United States court at Nadi-
son, Albert King, for taking liquor
onto an Indian reservation, wa sen
fenced to sixty days imprisonment;
Frank La Chapela, for selling LIQUOR
to Indians, was fined 500 and given
! ) days imprisonment, and Robert
Stitt, for sending obscene matter
through the mails, was fined 500.
AWARDS have been made 10 the
heirs OF those killed by the fall OF the
wing OF the capitol in November, 1888.
The law require that no award ex
ceed 50 900, and that all expeuse OF
care by thestate be deducted. Awards
were made to the irs Of W. g. Jones,
of Milwaukee, 81, ,953; o. Michael
Zwauk, OF Madison, 81 923; OF James
Kelley, OF Madison, 81, 9O9; OF William
Edgar, OF Madison, S63S; OF Bernard
Higgins, 81 $50. James Dowell left
neither wife nor child, and theexpense
incurred for HIM by the state was
equal to thefull award.
| TEN boys were arrested at La
| Crosse and fined S6 each Tor stealing
melons.
INDIAN HILL, near North La Crosse,
| has been bought by DR.. Powell, OF La
| Crosse, and "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and
it will be turned into park. Several
thousand dollars will be expended on
| improvements.
FATHER JACKER, a priest, ~ell-knOwn
| throughout Northern Wisconsin and
| Michigan, died recently at Marquette.
! Father Jacker spent many years
among the Indians OF Wisconsin as a
missionary.
ENGINEER HINCBLEY, OF the Burllng-
! ION road, was struck in the face by 4
flying bolt sprung from the track. The
train was running at a nign rate ot
speed and the piece OF iron inflicted 9